Archduchess Magdalena of Austria

Archduchess Magdalena of Austria (German: Magdalena von Habsburg) (August 14, 1532 in Innsbruck – September 10, 1590 in Hall in Tirol)[1] was a member of the House of Habsburg, and the founder and first abbess of the convent in Hall in Tirol.

Archduchess Magdalena of Austria

Biography

Magdalena was the fourth daughter of fifteen children of Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor, and his wife Anne of Bohemia and Hungary.

During his lifetime her father had expressed to Archduchess Magdalena and her younger sister Margaret the desire for them to remain unmarried and create a community of pious women. After her father's death in 1564, Magdalena took the vow of celibacy, and set out to found a "royal convent" in Hall in Tirol, where like-minded women - both aristocratic and bourgeois - could lead a reclusive, pious and God-fearing life under the supervision of the Jesuits.

Magdalena died in 1590 after a short sickness. She was buried in the Jesuit church in Hall in Tirol. In 1706, her remains were transferred to the convent church.

Ancestors

Ancestors of Archduchess Magdalena of Austria

16. Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor[2] 8. Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor[3] 17. Eleanor of Portugal[2] 4. Philip I of Castile[4] 18. Charles, Duke of Burgundy[5] 9. Mary, Duchess of Burgundy[3] 19. Isabella of Bourbon[5] 2. Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor 20. John II of Aragon[6] 10. Ferdinand II of Aragon[4] 21. Juana Enríquez[6] 5. Joanna I of Castile[4] 22. John II of Castile[7] 11. Isabella I of Castile[4] 23. Isabella of Portugal[7] 1. Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor 24. Vladislaus II Jagiellon[8] 12. Casimir IV Jagiellon[9] 25. Sophia of Halshany[8] 6. Vladislaus II of Bohemia and Hungary[9] 26. Albert II, King of the Romans[10] 13. Elisabeth of Austria[9] 27. Elizabeth of Luxembourg[10] 3. Anne of Bohemia and Hungary 28. John de Foix, 1st Earl of Kendal[11] 14. Gaston de Foix, Count of Candale[11] 29. Margaret de la Pole[11] 7. Anne of Foix-Candale[9] 30. Gaston IV, Count of Foix[12] 15. Catherine of Foix[12] 31. Eleanor of Navarre[12]

References

1. Profile on Darlene's Family Genealogy
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3. Wurzbach, Constantin, von, ed. (1861). "Habsburg, Philipp I. der Schöne von Oesterreich" . Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich [Biographical Encyclopedia of the Austrian Empire] (in German). 7. p. 112 – via Wikisource.
4. Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Joanna" . Encyclopædia Britannica. 15 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
5. Poupardin, René (1911). "Charles, called The Bold, duke of Burgundy" . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. 5 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
6. Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Ferdinand V. of Castile and Leon and II. of Aragon" . Encyclopædia Britannica. 10 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
7. Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Isabella of Castile" . Encyclopædia Britannica. 14 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
8. Casimir IV, King of Poland at the Encyclopædia Britannica
9. Priebatsch, Felix (1908), "Wladislaw II.", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB) (in German), 54, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 688–696
10. Wurzbach, Constantin, von, ed. (1860). "Habsburg, Elisabeth von Oesterreich (Königin von Polen)" . Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich [Biographical Encyclopedia of the Austrian Empire] (in German). 6. p. 167 – via Wikisource.
11. Boureau, Alain (1995). The Lord's First Night: The Myth of the Droit de Cuissage. Translated by Cochrane, Lydia G. The University of Chicago Press. p. 96.
12. Noubel, P., ed. (1877). Revue de l'Agenais [Review of the Agenais]. 4. Société académique d'Agen. p. 497.